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Violin Without A Master, 1853
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1INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE VIOLIN.
3If you cannot readily attain to stop in tune, you may then have recourse to the ensuing example, wherein the strings of the Violin are represented and divided into Frets, and is to be done as follows. Mark out the lines or frets with a pair of compasses, either with ink or bits of paper, and paste it on the finger-board of your Violin at the same distance as example: thus you will easily discern every note, and with little practice learn to stop in tune to a very great nicety.
5SCALE OF THE FINGER BOARD.
71st String.
82d String.
93d String.
104th String.
12ON BOWING.
14The motion is to proceed from the joints of the wrist and elbow in playing quick notes, but in playing long notes where the Bow is drawn from one end to the other, the joint of the shoulder is also a little employed. The Bow must always be drawn parallel to the bridge, which cannot be done if it is held stiff. The best performers make use of the whole of their bow from the point to that part of it under and beyond the fingers. In an up bow the hand is held a little downward from the joint of the wrist, when the nut approaches the strings; and the wrist is immediately straightened, or the hand rather a little bent back or upwards as soon as the bow is begun to be drawn down again. One of the principal beauties of the Violin is the swelling or increasing and then softening the sound, which is done by pressing the bow on the strings with the fore-finger more or less. In playing long notes the sound should be begun soft, gradually swelling till the middle, and from thence gradually softened to the end; and, lastly, particular care must be taken to draw the bow smoothly from one end to the other without interruption, for on this principally, and keeping the bow always parallel with the bridge, and pressing it only with the fore-finger upon the string with discretion, depends the fine tone of the instrument.
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